Setup ownCloud 7 on openSUSE 13.2

ownCloud is a web suite that provides a cloud storage over the network, data can be uploaded via web browser or using software client. Data will be stored on the server and can be downloaded or access any time with browser or desktop client or smartphone app. The project is based on PHP and a SQLite, MySQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL database, so it can run on all platforms that meet these requirements. It provides almost all possibility of functions that are available on commercial suites; it is released under AGPLv3 license, so you can setup own cloud storage server without any additional cost. Commercial version of ownCloud is also available.

Features:

The following are the list of features available on ownCloud.

File storage in conventional directory structures

Cryptography

Synchronization of data with th desktop, web client or mobile app.

Calendar (also as CalDAV)

Task scheduler

Address book (also as CardDAV)

Music streaming (through Ampache)

User and group administration (via OpenID or LDAP)

Sharing of content across groups or public URLs

Online text editor with syntax highlighting and code folding

Bookmarking

URL shortening Suite

Photo gallery

PDF viewer (using pdf.js)

Viewer for ODF Files (.odt, .odp, .ods)

New Features in ownCloud 7:

Improved sharing between two owncloud installation.
Faster and more efficient design, suitable for mobile devices
Store, Access and Control

grant all on clouddb.* to 'clouddbuser'@'localhost' identified by 'password';

Start apache service.

service apache2 restart

service apache2 restart

Configure ownCloud:

Open up web browser, point a url to http://your-ip-address/owncloud. Browser will automatically take you to ownCloud setup page. You have option to choose database (SQLite and MySQL/MariaDB) of your choice.

openSUSE 13.2 – ownCloud 7 Setup Page

For larger environment, it is not recomended to use SQLite. Here we use MySQL, Enter admin user name, password, data folder location and database details by clicking on “Storage and database”.

openSUSE 13.2 – ownCloud DB details

Alternately you can also download ownCloud client or apps for smart phones to upload the files.